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CDC: Fewer smokers go to the dentist

Smokers not only have more problems with their teeth than non-smokers, they also go to the dentist less often.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Americans' knowledge of polar regions up, but not their concern

Americans' knowledge of facts about the polar regions of the globe has increased since 2006, but this increase in knowledge has not translated into more concern about changing polar environments, according to new research ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diabetes linked to higher rate of birth defects

(Medical Xpress) -- Pregnant women with diabetes are almost four times more likely to have a baby with a birth defect than women without the condition and the likelihood is linked to the mother's glucose level, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tool for analyzing solar-cell materials

To make a silicon solar cell, you start with a slice of highly purified silicon crystal, and then process it through several stages involving gradual heating and cooling. But figuring out the tradeoffs involved ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Calories, not protein or carbs, are key to weight loss for people with diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to reduce weight if they focus on cutting back on total calorie intake, rather than specific high protein/high carbohydrate diets according ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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ACP recommends metformin to treat type 2 diabetes based on CE analysis of oral medications

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends that clinicians add metformin as the initial drug treatment for most patients with type 2 diabetes when lifestyle modifications such as diet, exercise, and weight loss have ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dry conditions spurred advanced photosynthesis

The need to conserve water played a vital role in driving plants to evolve a specialised form of photosynthesis, scientists have shown.

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UCI biologists turn up the heat on bacteria, discover mutation pattern

UCI biologists who spent a year growing 115 populations into 2,000 generations of E. coli at high heat discovered that the bacteria quickly adapted at the genetic level in two markedly different ways. The findings appear ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

High triglyceride levels found to predict stroke in older women

In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine have found that high levels of triglycerides (blood ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new screening method for prostate cancer

A new study by NYU Langone Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows novel PSA velocity (PSAV) risk count testing may provide a more effective way for physicians to screen men for clinically ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elevated glucose associated with undetected heart damage

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. Researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Impoverished schools, parent education key factors in student weight

Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Does Borna disease virus cause mental illness? New study may end two decades of suspicion

Over the past 30 years, numerous studies have linked Borna disease virus (BDV) with mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder and dementia. Genetic fragments and antibodies to this RNA virus, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Automated cDNA preparation system accelerates CAGE analysis on a single molecule sequence

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have developed a robotic workflow for sample preparation on the HeliScope single molecule sequencer which drastically reduces sample preparation time to ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sea cucumbers could be key to preserving coral reefs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tropical sea cucumbers could play a key role in saving coral reefs from the devastating effects of climate change, say scientists at One Tree Island, the University of Sydney's research station ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1